“To say that we want wages for housework is to expose the fact that housework is already money for capital, that capital has made and makes money out of our cooking, smiling, f*%&#ng.” 

Silvia Federici, Activist, academic and writer of “Wages for Housework” 1975

How do we wrestle back control of our lives from gendered socialisation? How do we get back our bodies and our time? Who is controlling us? Who are we controlling?
In the interactive work Mother Controller, audience members can handle and control an iron, representative of potential further control. The participants' gestures affect the projected image - they “make the lady iron”, but they can also break free from the traditional, monotonous gestures of ironing from left to right. As participants divert, their more explorative gestures are rewarded within the resultant installation.